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Nation/nazione : Irish nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento

Nation-Nazione brings together scholars of Ireland and Italy to examine the multiple intersections, impacts, and influences that flowed between Italy and Ireland, and Italian and Irish nationalists, in the nineteenth century. By locating both Irish and Italian history in their wider European and comparative contexts, the book contributes to a fuller understanding of the national movements of both places, and the often surprising and unexpected intersections from electoral politics to culture to military force, as well as the abiding impact of Italian events, myths, and personalities in Ireland, and Irish in Italy. For Irish historians, it questions the image of Irish isolation or exceptionalism, just as it reminds Italians that the most distant corners of Europe impacted on their own national history. The first book to comprehensively address this topic, Nation/Nazione will open entirely new fields of research for scholars --Read more...

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Brings together scholars of Ireland and Italy to examine the multiple intersections, impacts, and influences that flowed between Italy and Ireland, and Italian and Irish nationalists, in the nineteenth century. This book locates both Irish and Italian history in their wider European and comparative contexts.Read more...

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'Nation/Nazione, which places nineteenth-century Ireland firmly within the wider European context, is ... a very welcome and important addition to the existing historiography. Its focus on the "interactions and intersections" between Irish and Italian nationalism means the volume also stands as a significant contribution to the growing transnational literature on the Italian Risorgimento ... This is a book with much to recommend it.' April 2015, Modern Italy 'This book will interest everyone concerned not only with the creation of modern Italy, but to the interactions over the course of the 19th Century of the emerging states of the European Community with interactions and interrelations that were both conflicting and fruitful.' January 2014 Irish Catholic 'Nation/Nazione provides an exhaustive overview of Irish nationalism's interactions with, and parallels to, the Italian Risorgimento - Nation/Nazione's many strong points also go a long way to providing a firm foundation for future work.' September 2014 Aidan Beatty (University of Chicago), Irish History Online. 'What is a nation and how is it formed? These are some of the key questions raised by this book, which is concerned primarily with two national movements that took place at around the same time, one in Italy, the other in Ireland. The various ways in which these two different campaigns influenced one another during their respective struggles also comes under the spotlight. At its core is the message that nationalism meant a different thing in each country, or rather that the route to achieve it was different.' September 2014 Oliver O'Hanlon (University College Cork), Irish Studies Review.Read more...